The federal government body ensuring fair judicial sentencing pushes to have new, more lenient sentences related to crack cocaine applied retroactively. Supporters of the move say that the past laws were racist; opponents protest that drug dealers are being let off too lightly.

Reports of “noxious” fumes close down a district in London, England, but investigators trace the suspect smell to an innocuous restaurant kitchen; the line between caution and hysteria can be a thin one.